Preparing For Death

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I believe we are to confess our sins to God daily - He says so in His Word, but it does not separate us from Him. Once we ask Him to come in - He never leaves. We just try to keep a personal relationship with Him daily - confessing our sins and asking for the Holy Spirit to lead us daily as God has a plan for our lives. But this thing of praying for souls in purgatory - I totally disagree - there is nothing in the Word of God that talks about purgatory. You see that is what is wrong with the teaching of the Catholic Church and those that are born again. Why would you have to pray for people to come out of purgatory if you as a Catholic believed what the Word of God says. If Jesus paid it all and it is finished our salvation through what He did on the cross, there is no need for purgatory. If you do not receive Jesus Christ into your life as your Saviour and substitute, there is no way to be saved after you die. Those who receive Him have eternal life now and will not pass unto judgment. If we have to go to a purgatory (not in the Bible) then what Jesus did for us on the cross was not enough and it is again our works. The Bible says that after we die there is no coming back in re-incarnation, nothing but judgment. We will be judged whether we accepted Jesus sacrifice on the cross and those that did will be with Him and those who didn’t will not. Yes, there will be rewards in heaven to us a Christians whether we did God’s will or not but that has nothing to do with our salvation. Our salvation is free (a free gift) that Jesus purchased for us. " For the wages of sin is death but the GIFT of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." JESUS DID IT ALL - THEREFORE NO ONE CAN BOAST. There are no souls in purgatory and we cannot pray them out - read the Bible for yourself and find out the truth. Do you want to know that truth - then Read the Word of God and ask God to show you. Man makes mistakes but His Word is Truth.

Sapamarogi(Jesus paid it all - all to Him we owe , sin had left a crimson stain - He washed us white as snow.
 
As a Rosarian and lay Dominican, I try to pray the Rosary (5 decades) every day. When I pray the Sorrowful Mysteries, I offer up each decade for a specific intention, and with the 5th decade, I pray for final perseverance and the grace not to die without my Sacraments. Maybe somebody will find it helpful if I lay out my intentions for the Sorrowful Mysteries. With each decade, I pray something like this (the last 4 decades are paraphrased in shorthand):
  1. The Agony in the Garden. My Jesus, with this decade, I offer up to you my own times of loneliness, in union with Your abandonment in the Garden of Gethsemane, and in reparation for Your sorrow in tabernacles all over the world where no one comes to visit You.
  2. The Scourging at the Pillar. Offered up: my own physical sufferings, in union with His sufferings at the pillar. In reparation for: my sins of the flesh.
  3. The Crowning with Thorns. Offered up: my mental and emotional anguishes, especially humiliations, and also my migraine headaches, in union with His torments in the Crowning with Thorns. In reparation for: my sins of thought and word, and for blasphemies and sacrileges.
  4. The Carrying of the Cross. Offered up: my own crosses and struggles to bear them, in union with His Cross and the terrible journey to Calvary. In reparation for: all the times I have tried to run away from crosses appointed to me.
  5. The Crucifixion. Offered up: my losses, endings and bereavements, and especially my own death, whenever and however it comes to me, in union with His crucifixion and death, and in reparation for murder and abortion. And I pray for final perseverance and the grace not to be denied my last Sacraments.
Another thing everybody should do to prepare for the end is to practice the devotion of the Nine First Fridays. It’s neither quick nor easy, but I think it’s worth it.

Nobody likes to think about their own death, but it seems to me we should prepare for it now, while we are still in our right minds. We don’t know when death is going to come, and even if it isn’t sudden, we can’t count on having full possession of our faculties during our last moments. If we persevere in prayer now for what we’ll need then, we can be sure God will take care of the rest.
 
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I believe we are to confess our sins to God daily - He says so in His Word, but it does not separate us from Him. Once we ask Him to come in - He never leaves. We just try to keep a personal relationship with Him daily - confessing our sins and asking for the Holy Spirit to lead us daily as God has a plan for our lives. But this thing of praying for souls in purgatory - I totally disagree - there is nothing in the Word of God that talks about purgatory. You see that is what is wrong with the teaching of the Catholic Church and those that are born again. Why would you have to pray for people to come out of purgatory if you as a Catholic believed what the Word of God says. If Jesus paid it all and it is finished our salvation through what He did on the cross, there is no need for purgatory. If you do not receive Jesus Christ into your life as your Saviour and substitute, there is no way to be saved after you die. Those who receive Him have eternal life now and will not pass unto judgment. If we have to go to a purgatory (not in the Bible) then what Jesus did for us on the cross was not enough and it is again our works. The Bible says that after we die there is no coming back in re-incarnation, nothing but judgment. We will be judged whether we accepted Jesus sacrifice on the cross and those that did will be with Him and those who didn’t will not. Yes, there will be rewards in heaven to us a Christians whether we did God’s will or not but that has nothing to do with our salvation. Our salvation is free (a free gift) that Jesus purchased for us. " For the wages of sin is death but the GIFT of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." JESUS DID IT ALL - THEREFORE NO ONE CAN BOAST. There are no souls in purgatory and we cannot pray them out - read the Bible for yourself and find out the truth. Do you want to know that truth - then Read the Word of God and ask God to show you. Man makes mistakes but His Word is Truth.

Sapamarogi(Jesus paid it all - all to Him we owe , sin had left a crimson stain - He washed us white as snow.
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Thank you. As any Catholic can tell you, we hav ebeen waiting 2000 years for you to come and spread the good news. And now we are Sooooooo enlightened. Thanks much and come again.
 
sapamarogi said:
…There are no souls in purgatory and we cannot pray them out - read the Bible for yourself and find out the truth. Do you want to know that truth - then Read the Word of God and ask God to show you. Man makes mistakes but His Word is Truth.
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Which Bible should we read: the one with all the books, or the expurgated version?

By the way, you have some, shall we say, very unusual ideas about what we believe. The Church categorically rejects reincarnation. CCC at 1013. Jack Chick’s comic books might not be quite the best source for information about the Catholic Church.
 
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But that has nothing to do with our being born again - that happened the moment we asked Him in.
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Well, that’s not biblical. We are born again of water and the Holy Spirit, or according to the Tradition since the times of the Apostles, by baptism.

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I am blessed to have friends who work with hospice. I have heard many stories of peaceful deaths and not so peaceful deaths. I am very aware of my own mortality. I do everything I can to be prepared. As stated in another post we never know when death will come like a thief in the night. I am just ever so thankful that I came to appreciate this and have the opportunity to do all I can to be prepared spiritually.
 
I try to be as ready as I can. I ask every night for my little boy to pray for me and our family. He died in March and now I feel like I am just waiting and doing anything necessary to see him on the other side. I agree that life is a gift that we should not waste. However, we should not avoid death at all cost. Just as a fetus must undergo birth to fully experience this life, so we must undergo death to experience the fullness of God’s plan for us.

I don’t “desire” to pass on any sooner than God will’s it. I do, however, look forward to that day with eager anticipation.

NO EYE HAS SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NOR HEART CONCEIVED WHAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVED HIM!!!
That’s quite a promise.
 
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